Will increase daily Covid testing capacity to 45 lakh: Centre
Express News Service NEW DELHI: The Centre on Monday said that India’s Covid testing capacity is being projected to be raised to 45 lakh per day from the current 25 lakh in the wake of the pandemic now engulfing rural and peri-urban areas of the country. Of the 25 lakh testing capacity in the country at present, 13 lakh tests are RT-PCR tests and the rest are rapid antigen tests. In India, the actual daily tests to detect fresh coronavirus cases, however, has not even touched the 20 lakh mark. In a ministers' meeting on Covid, chaired by Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan, it was highlight...
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